DevOps Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

DevOps
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 27 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 33 37 60
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 6.95% 6.43% 7.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.76% 7.40% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 45
10th Percentile £417 £495 £503
25th Percentile £533 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £590 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -5.60% +19.05%
75th Percentile £644 £672 £725
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 425 500 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.47% 86.96% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 342 541
10th Percentile £319 £356 £350
25th Percentile £510 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £674 £655 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £725
South West median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 16
10th Percentile £12.50 - £14.36
25th Percentile £17.90 - £35.64
Median hourly rate £23.25 £12.79 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.78% -74.42% -18.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £65.75
90th Percentile - £22.23 £73.25
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Wiltshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Corsham -4 14 £600 +1.69% 5
Swindon +4 10 £588 -9.62% 8
Chippenham - 1 £568 - 2
DevOps
South West

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (39.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.03%) IaaS
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Pulumi
6 1 (3.03%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.06%) DNS
2 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) Network Security
2 2 (6.06%) SSL
2 2 (6.06%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Metadata
2 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) JIRA
2 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 8 (24.24%) GitLab
4 6 (18.18%) Git
5 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.06%) Maven
5 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.03%) Appium
6 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.03%) JUnit
6 1 (3.03%) Selenium
6 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Architect
2 5 (15.15%) Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.09%) DevOps Architect
4 3 (9.09%) JIRA Consultant
4 3 (9.09%) Management Consultant
4 3 (9.09%) Service Management Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Principal Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Service Management Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.03%) ITSM Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (9.09%) RESTful
3 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.06%) Middleware
4 1 (3.03%) .NET
4 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.03%) CSS
4 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.03%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) Playwright
4 1 (3.03%) React
4 1 (3.03%) Spring
4 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) Agile
2 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
3 11 (33.33%) Change Management
3 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (33.33%) ITIL
3 11 (33.33%) ITSM
3 11 (33.33%) Service Management
4 7 (21.21%) Incident Management
4 7 (21.21%) Incident Response
4 7 (21.21%) Problem Management
5 6 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (15.15%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (15.15%) DevSecOps
6 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.15%) SDLC
6 5 (15.15%) Workflow
7 4 (12.12%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (12.12%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Python
2 15 (45.45%) PowerShell
3 6 (18.18%) Bash
4 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) SQL
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 20 (60.61%) SC Cleared
3 10 (30.30%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Degree
5 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
5 2 (6.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) CISSP
6 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
3 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Terraform
2 8 (24.24%) Ansible
3 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.09%) Grafana
4 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (3.03%) Packer
6 1 (3.03%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Atlassian
2 3 (9.09%) Splunk
3 2 (6.06%) CheckPoint
3 2 (6.06%) F5
3 2 (6.06%) IBM
3 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.03%) Dell
4 1 (3.03%) HP
4 1 (3.03%) TOWER Software
4 1 (3.03%) VMware